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American Educational Research
Washington, DC · EIN 23-7003537. Reported 172 grants totalling $3,701,753 to 86 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For American Educational Research, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B00E) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 86 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 57% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $16,500. Half of what it reported fell between $11,000 and $29,000; the smallest was $5,483 and the largest $90,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $243,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Teachers College Columbia University | New York, NY | $163,330 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin | Madison, WI | $139,108 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $136,763 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $124,428 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $99,211 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $93,690 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $93,250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $90,522 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | $89,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $88,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $83,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boston College Trustees | Chestnut Hill, MA | $80,369 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Illinois Foundation | Champaign, IL | $79,863 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $74,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Notre Dame Du Lac | Notre Dame, IN | $73,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $71,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Texas A&m Univ | Bryan, TX | $65,159 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Riverside | Riverside, CA | $64,991 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | Lincoln, NE | $64,278 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $57,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $55,512 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $55,084 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $54,929 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $54,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North Carolina State Univ | Raleigh, NC | $54,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $47,527 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California Merced | Merced, CA | $47,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $45,967 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Florida State University Research Foundation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $38,301 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Georgia | Atlanta, GA | $31,250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $30,390 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blue Swallow Farm Foundation | Leesburg, VA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Claremont Graduate University | Claremont, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Molloy University | Rockville Ctr, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prairie View A&m University | Prairie View, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Oklahoma | Norman, OK | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Massachusetts Boston | Boston, MA | $29,578 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| State of West Virginia | Morgantown, WV | $29,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northern Illinois University | Dekalb, IL | $29,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas at San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ohio State University Foundation | Columbus, OH | $25,147 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Florida International University Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lehigh University | Bethlehem, PA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Cruz, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Curators of the Univ of Missouri | Columbia, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Kansas Center for Research Inc | Lawrence, KS | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Southern Mississippi | Hattiesburg, MS | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | Burlington, VT | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rowan University | Glassboro, NJ | $23,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Board of the University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL | $23,055 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Civilytics Consulting LLC | Watertown, MD | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia, PA | $23,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Rhode Island | Kingston, RI | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $21,549 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of Univ of California Davis | Davis, CA | $21,144 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $19,581 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sacred Heart University | Fairfield, CT | $19,013 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fordham University | Bronx, NY | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southern Methodist University | Dallas, TX | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Wisconsin-Whitewater | Whitewater, WI | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Central Connecticut State University | New Britain, CT | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Montclair State University | Clifton, NJ | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Univ of North Carolina Charlotte | Charlottesville, NC | $11,131 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Loyola Marymount University | Los Angeles, CA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Soka University of America | Aliso Viejo, CA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Texas State University | San Marcos, TX | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southern Illinois University Edwardsville | Edwardsville, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stony Brook University (suny) | Albany, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cleveland State University | Cleveland, OH | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Educational Testing Service | Charlotte, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Tech University System | Lubbock, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Johns University New York | Jamaica, NY | $5,483 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
47 of 86 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 41 of 86 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 47 | $989,349 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 50 | $1,148,510 | $19,256 |
| 2023 | 36 | $759,822 | $18,184 |
| 2024 | 39 | $804,072 | $17,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
17% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $16,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from American Educational Research's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 39 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1430 K Street Nw 1200, Washington, DC, 20005.
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